Новости за 22.07.2022

On Thursday evening, the January 6 committee presented what amounted to its season finale: a gripping, two-hour prime-time event that revealed the full extent of Trump’s complicity in the riot on the U.S. Capitol. But if you flipped over to Fox News, there was little mention of the hearings or their revelations. Instead, the network’s hosts were focused on a much bigger scandal: the fact that Joe Biden contracted Covid-19.

At its heart, the expression “Nope!” is an exclamation born out of a desire to survive. Writer-director Jordan Peele titles his new film Nope and puts that phrase in the mouths of several of his characters in order to play upon a widely held piece of Black American lore: that we would never do all of the oblivious and reckless things that white people do in horror films. This declaration indicts a clueless white innocence that is irresponsible and thus dangerous, but it also reveals something tragic about its utterer. Читать дальше...

Georgia is on my mind. But unlike the Georgia of song, which floats in “peaceful dreams,” the real Georgia is home to an investigation that reminds us of the national nightmare.

There were many more morally and legally damning pieces of evidence presented against Donald Trump during Thursday night’s prime-time hearing of the January 6 committee. But none were more humiliating for Trump’s overblown ego than the outtakes from the taping of his January 7, 2021, speech to the nation when he was under heavy pressure to finally say the right things about the assault on the Capitol.

President Biden tested positive for Covid on Thursday. Any time the president of the United States tests positive for a disease that has killed over a million Americans, it should send alarm bells ringing. At the same time, the fact that it’s taken this long for the virus to find its way to him is a testament to the White House’s protocol to protect him. Presidents have busy schedules that involve meeting lots of people—lots of people who increasingly have Covid.